Show ANOTHER SOUTHPAW 5 PIT CHER FOR TIGERS I 1 V X U co 1 4 1 44 IOU burns who recently signed with detroit manager jennings baa has strengthened bis his pitching staff by purchasing bill burns of the minneapolis club detroit really owed dill burns a job in 1909 the last of the tigers fat tat years burns bums pitched jennings team into the american league championship dill bill was then a member of the white sox club and was sent to the mound against the athletics in the tile second game of a double header he lie belt beit the athletics in thia this game and the defeat cost connie mack the pennant 1 I expect bill burns to become ono one of the greatest left handers the american league baa has known declared jennings burns has the baseball know knowledge ledie he e has the strength and be he baa has the experience everything Is in his favor and I 1 am confident that he will be one of most dependable pitchers this season burns has had bad a peculiar baseball life first be he was with washington then with ith chicago then with cincinnati then with the 11 hillies he lie had varying success with each of these teams burns has a peculiar disposition I 1 do not mean to say that be he la Is eccel trie or anything like that but be he lent a fellow follow to jump every time tho the inclination meets him ho lie thinks about things occurrences Occurrence a that would upset the ordinary man do not disturb burns that la Is the hind kind of pitcher we need many times no matter what the situ atlon burns Is steady he ile Is never rattled and he be never loses his nerve he lie will tick stick as longas long anyone and with him a game over until the last man Is out in the ninth inning burns was a fine pitcher when he was in the th american Anie rican league before it was seldom detroit beat him and detroit bad had just as good bitting hitting club then as any manager would ask for yet our victories over burns were always of the tasteless kind one oe run usually separated the winner from the loser and burns the loser was pitching for au an acknowledged weaker club burns will ill be one of the regular pitchers I 1 do not believe there Is any question on that point |